Apprentice Healthcare Support Worker Band 2
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
London (SW3 6JJ)
Closes in 23 days (Monday 15 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 21 November 2025
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Summary
We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our nursing team as an Apprentice Healthcare Support Worker (HCSW). This apprenticeship is designed for individuals looking to begin their career in healthcare, gain hands-on experience, and achieve a Level 2 Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship alongside the Care Certificate.
- Wage
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£24,465 a year
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Additional HCAS -High Cost Area Supplement for Central London
- Training course
- Healthcare support worker (level 2)
- Hours
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Shifts to support service over 7 days, exact working days and hours TBC
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Deliver safe, compassionate care to patients, including those receiving cancer treatments
- Support patients with daily needs such as nutrition, hygiene, and comfort
- Assist with clinical tasks (e.g. ECGs, vital signs, infection control) once trained and assessed as competent
- Help maintain a safe, clean, and welcoming ward environment
- Provide a warm welcome to patients and their families, supporting them throughout their stay
Where you'll work
Fulham Road
London
SW3 6JJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DYNAMIC TRAINING UK LIMITED
Training course
Healthcare support worker (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Work in line with legislation, policies, standards, local ways of working and codes of conduct that apply to own role.
- Work within the scope of practice, the limits of own knowledge and skills, escalating and reporting to others when needed.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe non-discriminatory person-centred care and support in line with individual’s established consent.
- Implement a duty of care, recognising and responding to safeguarding and protection concerns and acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm.
- Recognise and respond to the signs and symptoms that an individual is in pain, distress or discomfort to maximise comfort and wellbeing.
- Recognise and respond to changes in individuals’ health and wellbeing.
- Perform basic life support.
- Undertake physiological measurements, selecting and using the correct tools or equipment.
- Assist the registered practitioner in encouraging individuals to take or use their prescribed medication.
- Promote access to fluids and nutrition in line with an individual’s care plan.
- Support individuals with activities of daily living to maximise independence in line with their desired outcomes and plan of care.
- Contribute to the storage of supplies and equipment.
- Contribute to the cleaning, disinfecting and disposal of materials and equipment.
- Support others with appointments, enquiries and referrals.
- Communicate with individuals using techniques designed to facilitate understanding.
- Recognise and respond to limitations in an individual’s mental capacity.
- Act on opportunities to support others to maximise their health, well-being and positive lifestyle choices.
- Record and store information related to individuals securely and in line with local and national policies, including the safe use of technology.
- Report and share information related to individuals securely and in line with local and national policies, maintaining confidentiality.
- Maintain a safe and healthy working environment, using a range of techniques for infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene and the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
- Move and handle equipment or other items safely and assist individuals.
- Take action in response to identified concerns, risks, incidents or errors and near misses arising in the workplace.
- Participate in appraisal and supervision to support ongoing personal development.
- Participate in training and development activities including the Care Certificate Standards.
- Reflect on own practice.
- Contribute to improvement activities in the workplace, for example collecting and logging data for audit.
- Use evidence to make suggestions for improving practice.
- Work in line with legislation, policies, standards, local ways of working and codes of conduct that apply to own role.
- Work within the scope of practice, the limits of own knowledge and skills, escalating and reporting to others when needed.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide safe non-discriminatory person-centred care and support in line with individual’s established consent.
- Implement a duty of care, recognising and responding to safeguarding and protection concerns and acting in the best interest of individuals to ensure they do not come to harm.
- Recognise and respond to the signs and symptoms that an individual is in pain, distress or discomfort to maximise comfort and wellbeing.
- Recognise and respond to changes in individuals’ health and wellbeing.
- Perform basic life support.
- Undertake physiological measurements, selecting and using the correct tools or equipment.
- Assist the registered practitioner in encouraging individuals to take or use their prescribed medication.
- Promote access to fluids and nutrition in line with an individual’s care plan.
- Support individuals with activities of daily living to maximise independence in line with their desired outcomes and plan of care.
- Contribute to the storage of supplies and equipment.
- Contribute to the cleaning, disinfecting and disposal of materials and equipment.
- Support others with appointments, enquiries and referrals.
- Communicate with individuals using techniques designed to facilitate understanding.
- Recognise and respond to limitations in an individual’s mental capacity.
- Act on opportunities to support others to maximise their health, well-being and positive lifestyle choices.
- Record and store information related to individuals securely and in line with local and national policies, including the safe use of technology.
- Report and share information related to individuals securely and in line with local and national policies, maintaining confidentiality.
- Maintain a safe and healthy working environment, using a range of techniques for infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene and the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
- Move and handle equipment or other items safely and assist individuals.
- Take action in response to identified concerns, risks, incidents or errors and near misses arising in the workplace.
- Participate in appraisal and supervision to support ongoing personal development.
- Participate in training and development activities including the Care Certificate Standards.
- Reflect on own practice.
- Contribute to improvement activities in the workplace, for example collecting and logging data for audit.
- Use evidence to make suggestions for improving practice.
Training schedule
You will build a portfolio of evidence to combine knowledge delivered through monthly remote workshops and practice which you will evidence through weekly reflection. You will record evidence of your learning weekly with the support of managers in-house and regular meetings with your Dynamic Training Coach via Teams.
More training information
Dynamic Training will provide a coach to support the knowledge element of your qualification, and you will learn hands-on at the Royal Marsden to achieve a Level 2 Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship alongside the Care Certificate. On successful completion of the apprenticeship, you will transition into a Band3 HCSW role.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4-9)
- maths (grade 4-9)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
Flexibility to meet the needs of the service (e.g. shift work) Evidence of commitment to customer care initiatives • Awareness of the importance of patient confidentiality • Awareness of health and safety at work (e.g. Manual Handling skills, Infection Control measures)
About this employer
Today it operates as a specialist cancer hospital and National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre for CancerThis link is external and opens in a new tab, working closely with its principal academic partner, the Institute of Cancer ResearchThis link is external and opens in a new tab (ICR). Together, The Royal Marsden and the ICR are ranked in the top five cancer centres in the world for the impact of their research, treating over 59,000 NHS and private patients every year. It is a centre of excellence with an international reputation for ground-breaking research and pioneering the very latest in cancer treatments and technologies, as well as specialising in cancer diagnosis and education
After this apprenticeship
Progression into a permanent Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker role on successful completion of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DYNAMIC TRAINING UK LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001614.
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Closes in 23 days (Monday 15 December 2025 at 11:59pm)
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